Vrinda- Case Study: The Changing Publishing Industry #1b

b. Current digital publishing systems vs future digital publishing expectations (changes). Important to briefly discuss the role of the internet in publishing

Current systems:

· E-books
· Blogs
· Magazines, newspapers and newsletters
· In the current system, known publishers have their products get sold more

What about the future?

· We cannot really confirm about the future right now, however I suspect there will be scarce resources, i.e. paper and ink will cost a lot, and therefore printing will cost a lot.
· This will lead to more people creating online products as well as many people purchasing only online products
· Also since currently an internet connection is required to access some of the systems, maybe in the future there will be an application allowing offline access to most of the systems
· In addition to this, according to the case study, one of the most important things is interaction with the system i.e. taking notes and highlighting things etc.

Role of the Internet:

· Currently we use internet on our mobile devices-phone, laptop, tablets, etc.- in order to access some of these systems as it is easier to have a wider audience for the author to share his/ her work to.
· This allows them to get a wide variety of feedback and comments on their work and maybe even interest some publishers.
· The internet allows the writer to communicate to the people he/ she needs to see in order to finalize their product e.g. graphic designer, professional editor etc.
· It will also help them/ provide them with a large platform to advertise their product and connect to a large number of viewers.